σύμφῠσις,εως,ἡ, (συμφύω)
A. growing together, natural junction, esp. of the bones, Hp. Fract. 37 , cf. Art. 34 ; opp.ἁφή, as being notmere contact, butcontinuity of substance, Arist. Metaph. 1014b22 , cf. 1069a12 , Ph. 227a23 ; ς. ὀστῶν
Id. HA 518b8
; so of bones united,κατὰ σύμφυσιν, opp. articulation (κατ' ἄρθρον), Gal. 2.734 , PLit.Lond. 167.19
(ii/iii A.D.); of attachment of muscles to bones, Gal. 2.445 , 484 ; ἡ ς. τοῦ δέρματος καὶ τῆς σαρκός
Pl. Ti. 77d
, cf. Arist. HA 547a16 , PA 693b25 ;ἡ πρὸς τὴν μήτραν ς. [τοῦ Χορίου] Sor. 1.73 ;closingorhealing upof an injured tree, Thphr. HP 9.2.6 ;ἡ ς. καὶ ἡ τάξις structureand arrangement of a physical body, Id. Sens. 79 , cf. Lap. 11 ;ἔντερον συμφύσεις ἔχον, of intestines divided into chambers by constriction, Arist. HA 507b35 ; ἡ ς. τοῦ πνεύμονος κατὰ ῥάχιν
Aret. SD 1.9
; of the tongue, ib. 7 .
2. metaph. of the mystic's union with the Supreme Being, Porph. Abst. 1.29 .